Sharing+digital+content+through+Creative+Commons

**Creative Commons**
A big feature of Web 2.0 is the easy of accessing and sharing digital content. Many sites allow for the uploading of a range of images, videos, sounds and written content and many Web 2.0 tools also make it easy to remix, repurpose and then share this content. While we can use much of this content within the classroom, to then place some of this back into our on-line content (for example through our Wikis) becomes a more complex issue. This involves not only how we acknowledge the source material we use but also how we may wish to share our work. Do you let others copy, distribute and display - and works based upon it – but only:
 * if they give you credit
 * for non-commercial purposes
 * verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it
 * under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

When you choose a Creative Commons licence, you are provided with tools and tutorials that let you add licence information to your site, or to one of several free hosting services that have incorporated Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licenses also enable you to easily change your copyright terms from the default of //all rights reserved// to //some rights reserved//.’
 * Creative Commons** is a non-profit organization that provides free, easy-to-use legal tools that ‘give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work’. This lets others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work.

Creative Commons licenses now cover millions of photos, books, songs, poems, artworks, videos and other media shared on the web. You may have already come across work with the following images and words attached: Except where otherwise [|noted], content on this site is licensed under a [|Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License]

There are six main types of licenses offered by Creative Commons. Descriptions of these can be viewed at []

The following two animations explain some of the basic concepts behind Creative Commons.

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